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Who wants to Miss the fun?
Beauty pageants bring some colour to a drab existence. Those for and against these contests have their hands full. VIDHU MARY JOHN takes a look at both sides of the coin.
Health & Medicine

Go bananas
There is no disputing the goodness of bananas
Science Snippets

Depleted of large fish
WE HAVE only 10 per cent of all large fish — both open ocean species including tuna, swordfish, marlin and the large ground fish such as cod, halibut, skates and flounder — left in the sea, says a report in the international journal ...
Personality

Anchoring a hot & spicy passion
More than anchoring Master Chef on Asianet T.V, Anil Kumar is full of interesting recipes.PREMA MANMADHAN finds out all the ingredients that make this Chef, so hot and spicy
Fashion

Shirt circuit
While the First World War put women into shirts, the basic shirt now breaks away from all formal boundaries. And today, the women's shirt combines elements of style with power dressing.
Music

Instrumental feast
JUST AS ragas are transplanted from Hindustani music to Carnatic music and vice versa, musical instruments too are transplanted from one geographical region to another. Violin, alien to Indian culture until a couple of centuries ago, sneaked into ...


Wish they were there!
Aficionados will swear by Pink Floyd, who redefined the way rock was written and sung.
Sport

Long and winding road to chess glory
Two precocious young boys are making the right moves in the arena of chess. STAN RAYAN profiles the little masters.
Green Notes

Attractive hollyhock
Althea, popularly known as hollyhock, is traditionally seen in cottage gardens in England. Be it red, pink, rose, pale yellow and white... the blooms add beauty to gardens.
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Rare kathakali prowess
It is but rarely that kathakali masters come together. It was celebration time for this dance drama fans when Kalyana Sougandhikam was staged in the city recently. T. K. SADASIVAN goes into raptures over the wonderful performance.
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